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Serious unclassified road crash in North Northamptonshire NN16 on 22 December 1997 at 01:00 involving a Datsun Sunny

A Datsun Sunny hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire at 01:00 on Monday 22 December 1997. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Dec 1997
Monday, 01:00
Vehicles
1
Datsun Sunny
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39828, longitude -0.72644, in the NN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kettering. The location was in the former Kettering district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199734NC00890
Council area
North Northamptonshire
Police force
Northamptonshire
Highway authority
Northamptonshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Datsun Sunny

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Engine capacity
    1,488 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199734NC00890 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1997.